Abishai100
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- Sep 22, 2013
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This is a comics-oriented vignette about commerce-related intelligence in the modern world, inspired by the films Career Opportunities and Body of Lies.
Signing off,
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The great Joe-Cobra Media War was over, and G.I. Joes and Cobra agents were now good friends and everything was peaceful. Snake-Eyes (G.I. Joe ninja-assassin) revealed that the female Cobra eco-terrorist Pythona was actually his estranged half-sister. Duke (G.I. Joe leader) worked out a special deal with Cobra Commander to create social initiatives designed to forward peace and commerce in the new era of consumerism, and U.S. President Donald Trump was on board! Snake-Eyes and Pythona were assigned to work out the international marketing of Netgrocer.com
Netgrocer.com was a popular online grocery-shopping website which was in many ways more convenient than Amazon.com or other shopping venues which featured much more than just groceries. Netgrocer.com simply offered only groceries, so shoppers knew they were going to a shopping-resource that cared only about groceries and hence focused on quality and efficiency and customer-service for grocery-minded shoppers. Snake-Eyes and Pythona wanted to use Scandinavian countries to create an international Netgrocer marketing 'campaign' (since Scandinavia was a moderate democracy not necessarily closed-off to discussions with socialist-oriented nations such as North Korea or Cuba).
Snake-Eyes and Pythona met with the leaders of the two Scandinavian countries Norway and Denmark to determine how best to market Netgrocer in the region and use it as a 'base-of-operations' to appeal to the World Bank as well as North America regarding the practicality of offering traffic-based shopping resources for natural goods and foods for the modern consumer. It was a very objective and lifestyle-wise initiative, and Snake-Eyes realized that Pythona truly could be trusted for these new Joe-Cobra alliance plans and their ensuing commercial peace-treaty oriented global initiatives.
SNAKE-EYES: Pythona and I have forged great progress with Netgrocer.
TRUMP: Yes, Duke told me about your successes in Scandinavia!
SNAKE-EYES: In particular, Norway offered us great commercial benefits.
TRUMP: It looks like the Joe-Cobra alliance is for real!
SNAKE-EYES: Yes, Mr. President, and Netgrocer.com should become a 'trophy.'
TRUMP: Many think the Internet-hackers are the new terrorists.
SNAKE-EYES: Well, G.I. Joe and Cobra will work with the necessary infrastructures.
TRUMP: It's all computers and commerce now, Snake-Eyes.
SNAKE-EYES: You can trust me and Pythona in Norway (regarding Netgrocer).
TRUMP: So, Pythona is your sister, eh? That should make for fun storytelling...
SNAKE-EYES: Commerce is always preferable to outright war.
TRUMP: That's the challenge of modern commerce --- convert competition to teamwork.
SNAKE-EYES: Pythona and I even supplied identification-cards to the Norwegian government.
TRUMP: Maybe I'll pay a small visit to Norway this Black Friday...
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Signing off,
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The great Joe-Cobra Media War was over, and G.I. Joes and Cobra agents were now good friends and everything was peaceful. Snake-Eyes (G.I. Joe ninja-assassin) revealed that the female Cobra eco-terrorist Pythona was actually his estranged half-sister. Duke (G.I. Joe leader) worked out a special deal with Cobra Commander to create social initiatives designed to forward peace and commerce in the new era of consumerism, and U.S. President Donald Trump was on board! Snake-Eyes and Pythona were assigned to work out the international marketing of Netgrocer.com
Netgrocer.com was a popular online grocery-shopping website which was in many ways more convenient than Amazon.com or other shopping venues which featured much more than just groceries. Netgrocer.com simply offered only groceries, so shoppers knew they were going to a shopping-resource that cared only about groceries and hence focused on quality and efficiency and customer-service for grocery-minded shoppers. Snake-Eyes and Pythona wanted to use Scandinavian countries to create an international Netgrocer marketing 'campaign' (since Scandinavia was a moderate democracy not necessarily closed-off to discussions with socialist-oriented nations such as North Korea or Cuba).
Snake-Eyes and Pythona met with the leaders of the two Scandinavian countries Norway and Denmark to determine how best to market Netgrocer in the region and use it as a 'base-of-operations' to appeal to the World Bank as well as North America regarding the practicality of offering traffic-based shopping resources for natural goods and foods for the modern consumer. It was a very objective and lifestyle-wise initiative, and Snake-Eyes realized that Pythona truly could be trusted for these new Joe-Cobra alliance plans and their ensuing commercial peace-treaty oriented global initiatives.
SNAKE-EYES: Pythona and I have forged great progress with Netgrocer.
TRUMP: Yes, Duke told me about your successes in Scandinavia!
SNAKE-EYES: In particular, Norway offered us great commercial benefits.
TRUMP: It looks like the Joe-Cobra alliance is for real!
SNAKE-EYES: Yes, Mr. President, and Netgrocer.com should become a 'trophy.'
TRUMP: Many think the Internet-hackers are the new terrorists.
SNAKE-EYES: Well, G.I. Joe and Cobra will work with the necessary infrastructures.
TRUMP: It's all computers and commerce now, Snake-Eyes.
SNAKE-EYES: You can trust me and Pythona in Norway (regarding Netgrocer).
TRUMP: So, Pythona is your sister, eh? That should make for fun storytelling...
SNAKE-EYES: Commerce is always preferable to outright war.
TRUMP: That's the challenge of modern commerce --- convert competition to teamwork.
SNAKE-EYES: Pythona and I even supplied identification-cards to the Norwegian government.
TRUMP: Maybe I'll pay a small visit to Norway this Black Friday...
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